Smurf attack explained.

Written by Preston on September 23, 2021 in DDoS attack with no comments.

A Smurf attack is a form of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that is performed at the network layer. The name of this attack comes from the malware DDoS.Smurf, which hackers use to execute it.  The Smurf attack has a very similar technique to ping floods, but they are a form of Denial of […]